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June 25, 2008 Using ADO to Access Excel, Part 1 Connect to and modify your spreadsheets A Web Exclusive from Windows IT Pro Jim Turner Feature InstantDoc #99123 Windows IT Pro	Email this Article Printer Friendly Reader Comments Digg This Del.icio.us RSS
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ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) can be used to access virtually any type of database via VBScript, as well as from a variety of other programming languages. In this article I’ll focus on how to use ADO to connect to and access data contained within Microsoft Excel spreadsheets using VBScript. (For bas . . .

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Finally I have found an article that clearly explains and demonstrates the basic workings of Excel! Thank You Logman98

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